Swan Lake

Can you guess the location of this gorgeous sunset scene? This is Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, approximately 110,000 acres of bird friendly wetlands in eastern North Carolina. Ducks, raptors and black bears call the refuge home, as does the reintroduced endangered red wolf. Streaking across the sunset sky in this image are hundreds of tundra swans. These white birds migrate from their breeding grounds along the Arctic Ocean down the U.S. Atlantic coast in the winter, sometimes reaching as far south as Florida.